Twitter: @harkuo Nokia celebrated its 150th birthday in 2015. Who knows what the next 150 years will bring? Nobody of course, but we can be sure that if Nokia is to remain in business decades into the future, we and the entire telco industry must become more sustainable. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, with communications services demand rising a…

Twitter: @v_agnihotri Then let’s talk integration Are you running a mobile network with radio access that has multiple bands and multiple radio technologies? Are your cell sites running out of space? Looking to cut operational expenditure and make your networks simpler and future proof? As we continue our series of blogs about Nokia AirScale Radio Access, we look at how a…

Twitter: @nokianetworks Power utilities provide a vital service in our daily lives. The electricity they deliver gives us light, heat and the power to electronically communicate. But society’s needs are radically changing, and as a result, today’s utilities are undergoing a monumental shift in the way they do business. A combination of green environmental regulations, disruptive energy technologies, changing electricity…

Twitter: @harkuo Ten years is a long time in telco. A decade ago I remember many operators had high hopes for renewable energy sources to power their base station sites. For operators hoping to achieve a zero emission radio access network (RAN), renewable energy is essential – energy efficiency improvements alone will not do it. This is partly why we saw…

Twitter: @harkuo Here’s an amazing statistic that has a clear impact for the telco industry. The Semiconductor Industry Association forecast that, based on current trends, computing will need more electricity by 2040 than the entire world could generate. That would be a showstopper for operators, who are major ICT users. Meanwhile, with the Paris Agreement on climate change being ratified and…

Twitter: @harkuo Did you know that water can store a thousand times more energy than the same volume of air? Or that the thermal conductivity of air is 22 times lower than that of water? Put together, this means air is much less effective at cooling electronic equipment than water. Using air to cool components uses much more energy. Did you…

Twitter: @nokianetworks Today, the most efficient way of transporting data is over fiber optic networks, which can deliver gigabit speeds over hair-thin strands of glass. Not only can optical networks deliver much more data, much more quickly than any other available technology, they do so using far less energy and space, making it the greenest option to support data networking…

Twitter: @AnaPesovic Nearly every organization today puts corporate social responsibility (CSR) high on the list of business priorities. Being eco-friendly is always an important part of CSR and every public or private organization is embracing green initiatives to cut waste, recycle and reduce their carbon footprints. Those that are leading the way have understood that going green is both good for…

Twitter: @TroelsKolding From HetNets to Ultra-Dense Networks – where you’ll never be more than a stone’s throw away from a base station A couple of years ago, one of the top buzz-words in the telco industry was ‘HetNets’ or Heterogeneous Networks, describing the amalgamation of macro and small cells using all radio access technologies as part of a single, super-network. As…

Twitter: @annapietil Calling all WCDMA operators! At the risk of sounding boring, yet ever so practical – because who has time for anything else – I want to tell you about some important 3G software updates that will help you tackle some of the practical, every day concerns like costly and time consuming drive tests and increasing energy costs. Nokia’s recent…